Compact Cassette. The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is a magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a pre-recorded cassette, or as fully recordable "blank" cassette. It was designed originally for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications.[1] Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. Between the early 1970s and the late 1990s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP record and later the compact disc.[2] Compact Cassettes consist of two miniature spools, between which a magnetically coated plastic tape is passed and wound.
History[edit] Introduction of music cassettes[edit] Press rewind: The cassette tape returns. The humble cassette tape, a happy memory for many music fans of a certain age, has staged a comeback for one Canadian company. The first order came in 1989: 10 cassettes. With that began Analogue Media Technologies, a company created to help bands market their music. Musicians would bring finished master recordings and graphic design templates, and Analogue, now also called Duplication.ca, would turn those materials into slickly produced albums, complete with labels, cover art and liner notes, ready for sale or distribution. "We've changed products depending on what's been in style and what the demand is for," says Denise Gorman, part-owner of the Montreal-based company.
It started with cassettes and vinyl, but then the trends shifted towards CDs, then DVDs and Blu-ray. Now, they find themselves returning to the medium that started it all. "We're back to cassettes as one of the main attractions," says Ms Gorman. Analogue now says that cassette recordings make up 25% of the business. Zip drive. Iomega ZIP-100 Drive Logo External ZIP-100 drive (uses the parallel port) An internal Zip drive installed in a computer An internal Zip drive outside of a computer The Zip disk media Back of the ZIP-100 with parallel port printer pass-through The Zip drive is a medium-capacity removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994.
Originally, Zip disks launched with capacities of 100 MB, but later versions increased this to first 250 MB and then 750 MB. The format became the most popular of the superfloppy products which filled a niche in the late 1990s portable storage market. Overview[edit] The Zip drive is similar to Iomega's earlier Bernoulli Box in that in both drives, a set of read/write heads mounted on a linear actuator hover over a rapidly spinning flexible medium mounted in a sturdy cartridge. Interfaces[edit] Later (USB, left) and earlier (parallel, right) Zip drives (media in foreground). Zip drives are available in multiple interfaces including: Legacy[edit] 20 Absurd Design Fails. Red telephone box.
An example of the most common red telephone box model (K6), photographed in London in 2012 The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone box can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot. The paint colour used is known as "cherry red" and is defined by a British Standard, BS 381C-539[2] Design history[edit] K1[edit] The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced in concrete in 1920 and was designated K1 (Kiosk No.1).
K2[edit] The Royal Fine Art Commission was instrumental in the choice of the British standard kiosk. K3[edit] K4[edit] K5[edit] K6[edit] K6, illuminated at night Fabrication[edit] Essay on Obselesence - Spam/Alex.